skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is the train engineer my accomplice in the robbery? Or my accessory after the fact? Is the train company?

No, even without common carrier status. Being an accessory to a crime is much more narrow than "unknowingly conveyed a criminal during routine operation of a transportation company".

That broad of an interpretation makes everything being an accessory to the crime. The federal government created and backs the bills the thief stole, so they helped. The city built the roads they used, so they help. Old Mister McCollem down the lane stopped walking so the thief didn't run them over, which might have helped.

> But without holding one’s self out as a carrier for all, there is no common carrier status. You cannot hold out a company as sufficiently large; they must hold themselves out as wanting this status.

This is not true, you're misconstruing the difference between companies that had mens rea in transporting illegal goods and companies that don't.

Common carrier is an involuntary status. The government decides whether a company is or is not a common carrier and is obligated to provide services to anyone that asks (basically). Common carriers are almost categorically excluded from liability for the goods they transport because they are effectively incapable of mens rea. They did not choose to transport those goods, therefore they could not have had criminal intent in making a choice to provide service.

Companies that are not common carriers _do_ have a choice when deciding whether to provide service, and thus are capable of having criminal intent when making that decision.

Inversely, companies that choose to act like a common carrier _do not_ receive the same protections as an actual common carrier. Their decision to provide service to everyone without asking questions is still a decision, and can meet the mens rea bar.

The most well known cases I can think of here would be The Pirate Bay and Silk Roads. Both behave as if they were common carriers and will sell/convey almost whatever you want without questions. They do not receive immunity for not asking questions, because the intent of that policy is to allow (encourage, really) illegal usage.

On the flip side, the Post Office/UPS have indemnity for conveying drugs bought on Silk Roads because they actually are common carriers. They didn't decide to just not check packages, they are legally prohibited from invasive package checking and denying service to customers they find sketchy (would need a fact check on the prohibition of checking packages; I believe there are limits on what they can check, but I don't know offhand what they are).
They just stay open. Going back and deciding which ones to close is a hassle.
I think they work if you install Google Play Services (as a sandboxed app). What doesn't work for me is contactless payments with Google Pay however Google Wallet itself works. But I think that is actually intended and for security reasons.
I have capslock mapped to ESC&CTRL, so my pinky is also around the important modifiers. And because of vim and gaming, hjkl & wsad are habitual for me anyway.
K-Means WebGPU Implementation Using Compute Shaders
Open-new-tab is faster than finding your old tab (… is there one still open?) for enough things that they stack up fast. Add a dose of “I’ll come back to this after the current distraction…” (you don’t) and “I’m not sure the current distraction is actually over, better leave those open” and it quickly becomes a self-reinforcing problem. Eventually you just mass-bookmark all few hundred of ‘em and close them all (that’s what I do anyway)
Yes, in theory steel is not the best material for a high-pressure tank.

We use it because it's cheap and well tested. But we are probably better of with a layered combination of a few different materials. Steel may not even enter it.
Who ever answers these questions truthfully though? It seems that this just tests for the ability to spin yarn at the interviewer.

I was recently asked this question, and while I've had some disagreements with coworkers over minor things, I've never had a major disagreement that was noteworthy, so I (to my inevitable detriment) said: "Nothing really comes to mind at the moment but if something like that were to happen, I'd do X, Y, and Z". Given the reaction from the interviewer I doubt I passed. I still have 2 more interviews with this company.
Not in Northern California.
Seems like from the blogpost that the writer and the founder were part of the same cohort at SpaceX. I would hazard a guess that they became friends, and had planned to do this together, and he joined ("hired") as soon as feasible for him (or the founder gained enough traction to pull him away from SpaceX).
Ah ok, thanks. It was confusing me saying "it starts with a single cell". Really it starts with the whole line of white cells with the red cell in the middle, and the rules are applied to every continuous 3 cells at each iteration.
You should see what the russians are spending to counteract the literal crumbs of Western warfighting.

Those bradleys and Abrams were 2000 vintage lol. The ATACMS are so old they are nearly expired. 200 bradleys and 100 western tanks gave russia pause, but the US has 3000 of each, in much better condition than the 3000 rusted out hulks russia is pulling from it's storage yards.

The only saving grace for russia has been the wests absolute unwillingness to donate anything more than table scraps to defend the sovereignty of Ukraine, forcing Ukraine to make do with basically nothing, causing needless Ukrainian blood to be spilled.

Ukraine could surrender tomorrow and this war would still have been a huge geopolitical blunder by Russia.

Now if only the West could copy the Shahed and Lancet, and I don't mean whatever the fuck "switchblade" sells that has a pissant warhead that couldn't disable a tent but costs ten times as much as the lancet. I know a lot of the cost of western precision munitions is about EW resistance and "military hardening" but the US has the entirety of the airforce budget dedicated to removing point targets that prevent you from attacking whatever you want, you won't always need a hardened weapon system. The Ukrainians hit that naval headquarters in Crimea with one of their duct-taped together homebuilt drones!
> Mac users pollute their desktop with a thousand icons

This is a strange generalization to make. I think it's more of a subset of computer users in general, not just Mac users...
The League of Legends role selection screen comes to mind...
Going directly to the source did not provide a favourable answer. Did you somehow miss reading the thread before you replied?
I have an electric car, and I'm starting a hugely expensive remodel that will involve migrating to a heat pump and electric tankless water heater, but even with solar, it's a laugh to say that my PG&E rates are a fixed cost!
A human body can be in a zombie state while doing something. So a human can do something while unconscious, although we may rightfully call such a body not a real human. Conscious experience begins when that human connects to his body.
If they're lowering investment, couldn't they lower prices?
I saw them on metro north going into nyc
> That's political suicide. As much as I wish for what you write to become true, look at how stupidly unimportant (or unsolvable) items made people like trump from 0 to hero.

Or look at how the carbon tax is killing the ruling party in Canada. It reduces GHG emissions, is structured in a progressive way that's a financial benefit to most people, is strongly supported by most economists, and is wildly unpopular at large.
I'm not saying it's substantiated at all, it just feels very sudden and too weird.
Nope. GrapheneOS is an AOSP fork (with not so many modifications) intended to be more secure.
It doesn't do it in a hacky way, these apps just don't get the internet permission. And it lets you install Play Services as a normal app (not a system app) so you choose what permissions that gets.
It appears that economy is in widespread recession. Hundreds of thousands have lost jobs. Job reports are getting revised after every few months.

I saw a tweet that showed we had a net job loss when revised reports are accounted for. I see thousands of videos on TikTok saying people are struggling.

Many job gains are in low-wage category.

I don't know what is going on. We have a business but people have stopped buying for the most part in last 6 months.

Anyone else see your business or startup struggling to close deals in last 6 months?

Hope it doesn't last longer. Slow bleeding is worse than hard recession.
We did have a drummer but unfortunately he died in a bizarre gardening accident.
You can do that with Sidebery, at least partially.
If I were integrating this with a project, I'd use the AI generated bone transforms as solver targets for a semi-active ragdoll. The active ragdoll would give you things like "two guys in the crowd knock shoulders and lose their balance briefly" and help with blending transitions between animations.

If you want people to try and dodge, I guess make a component I'd add to some bones with a spherical trigger on their shoulders and pelvis and have them use boid/flocking style evasion, leave it to the physics solvers to try and recover from there. Throw some crowds into one another, keep cooking escalations until it the stew looks sufficiently not abominable.
Thanks! I suppose the answer is that I didn't. It's pretty empty right now, besides friends and the results of a recent Meta ad campaign.
Instead of sending the money to oppressive regimes, we should send it to atmospheric carbon capture facilities.

It costs about $1/gallon (maybe $2/gallon, with recent inflation) to suck the CO2 emitted by gasoline out of the air, and put it back in the ground.

That's a heck of a lot less expensive than dealing with the consequences of climate change, and certainly less than the amount gas prices fluctuate due to price gouging, etc.
A fully rendered modern webpage is BIG - no matter what engine rendered it.

IIRC both current big engines drop the rendered state in the background under memory pressure, as it's pretty much the only way of dealing with it.
We tried to make the article fun to read. In the end, we could have omitted our hint about our product, but honestly, we have gathered a lot of know-how there for anyone who wants to build passkeys on their own. Our blog and this article are one of the better resources to start with, and even without it, our product offering is obvious. But: We are very commited to help anyone implementing passkeys.
All you're really proposing is stranding poor people at their houses in the middle of nowhere.
Not everyone's memory works the same way, and not everyone's organizational skills are the same. Whereas (it sounds like) you remember a task you're trying to do, and then go do it, and make a new tab and go do the task, for others, coming across the tab itself serves as the reminder about the task, and a call to action to do it. I'll open a tab that I need to do X, forget about X/procrastinate about X, open a tab for Y, and then Z, and then through going to a random tab, get to the tab about X, get reminded about doing X, and then go do it.
> saw a tweet that showed we had a net job loss when revised reports are accounted for

This is false [1].

> Anyone else see your business or startup struggling to close deals in last 6 months?

VCs are raising record-breaking funds again [2].

[1]https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PAYEMS

[2] https://www.altassets.net/private-equity-news/by-pe-sector/v...
I live in California. Most people's electricity bills have tripled in the last 2-3 years. There's no alternative electricity provider.

So, if everyone switches from oil, guess where the price gouging and collusion will move to?
It’s an industry now e.g. https://ipinfo.io
Prerequisite, yes, but it is not the thing itself. Just because you can spell doesn't mean you can write a novel, or every Spelling Bee winner should become an award winning novelist. The meaning of the words, the structure of the novel, characterizations, etc. all matter as well, and are ultimately much more important than just spelling things correctly.

Defining programming as just syntax is nonsense. The SHOUTED IS (like we're on AOL again for some reason) places outsized emphasis on syntax. Either that it is "just syntax" as randomdata wrote or the majority of programming as the SHOUTED IS could also imply, makes no sense. Just creating a syntactically valid program is insufficient for creating a correct or useful program, just as correctly spelling a string of words is not enough to create a novel.
It happens on Macs I’m sure, but the picture in my head of someone doing this to the extreme is definitely a Windows user.

[edit] for my part, as a Mac user, I couldn’t tell you whether my desktop’s full of icons (probably not?) nor what my background image is (… the default? Which I’m guessing is probably a mountain or a wave or something?) because I see my desktop so rarely, and never pay any attention to it.
Do they? Her story sounds exactly like what happens in authoritarian regimes with people who fall out of favor, nothing more. She controlled the largest bank in Vietnam for 10 years and then suddenly gets sentenced to death? In Russia, these people fall out of windows. This isn't justice.
> running while fat is totally doable

> around 30 years old

These two things go together. I'm almost 50 and in my experience you're not going to want to do this after 40 but it depends on many factors (shoes, joint health, body mechanics, what you run on..).
My CS degree should be more than adequate to show I can FizzBuzz.
This is one of my favorite SW essays. A tour de force in terms of using CA to show evolution, mutation, and natural selection.

Don't miss the "Personal Notes" section at the bottom. Neat history and insight into the process and life of a scientist.

> In a biological analogy we might have a genome that seems to lead to unbounded perhaps-tumor-like growth—but where actually the growth in the end “unexpectedly” stops.

I liked this aside. Early "cancer" detection can often lead to harm, mistaking benign for malicious growths.

> somehow follow from natural selection a general law...that would lead to the evolution of progressively more complex organisms, culminating in the “higher animals”. But absent the kind of model I’m discussing here, nothing in the later development of traditional evolutionary theory really successfully supported this—or was able to give much analysis of it.

A thing that comes to mind is Assembly Theory by Leroy Cronin and Sara Walker.
PG&E makes electric-only a little scary. I'll keep 1 EV and 1 ICE car rather than going 2 EVs due to them
What you would expect from private equity sadly. Destroyers of value.
I mean I don't like it hence the observation, but usually that's completely irrelevant and I wouldn't bring it up or pay that much attention to it. You're right it could've been worded a bit more sympathetically.
Daniel Shiffman is a legend! love his teaching style.
Sometimes you wonder if those "bugs" are intentionally well placed or not. Especially since big tech has been known that they work together with a kinds of intelligence agencies. I just can't believe that so many bugs like this in Android are there "not intentionally" at this point since this is not the first time I have heard about these kinds of bugs in Android.
Just curious, how did you calculate the 6.7x?
during my short stint at a PC repair place the owner changed policies from "attempt to remove viruses" to "reformat/reinstall if more than 5 viruses reported". Shortly after, a customer came in with an urgent need to get their PC fixed, it had more than 5 viruses (maybe 20? who knows). I didn't reimage, because in SATA HDD days that would take quite a while. I booted the antivirus/repair CDROM that me and a coworker made, removed the viruses, rebooted into windows and let it do a scan too. The job was to remove the viruses, not find the underlying cause. Boss was out of the office thursday and friday, so we just did what the customer asked.

well this customer, who begged us to get this done, had some website or plugin or lord knows what that reinfected them, and they brought it back the following Monday and complained. I got fired for not following policy. Nevermind that reimaging wouldn't have fixed the stupid of this customer, they still would have brought it in on monday, but "we reformatted the drive" would have sufficed as "we did the work, you messed it up, pay us again."

ETA: we had a whiteboard with a "record virus count" and it was between 30 and 40 thousand infected files found when i left. I can understand reimaging with 30,000 infected files (at the time a default windows install was only about twice that number of files if memory serves, win11 has 134K files in c:\windows), but 20?
That is fair, I may have copied the tinder model too literally.
in the actual FTC release:
"Through public statements, text messages, in-person meetings, WhatsApp conversations and other communications while at Pioneer, Sheffield sought to align oil production across the Permian Basin in West Texas and New Mexico with OPEC+."

"Sheffield, for example, exchanged hundreds of text messages with OPEC representatives and officials discussing crude oil market dynamics, pricing and output. In discussing his efforts to coordinate with Texas producers under a production cut mandated by the Railroad Commission of Texas, Sheffield said, “If Texas leads the way, maybe we can get OPEC to cut production. Maybe Saudi and Russia will follow. That was our plan,” he said, adding: “I was using the tactics of OPEC+ to get a bigger OPEC+ done.”"

"NOTE: The Commission issues an administrative complaint when it has “reason to believe” that the law has been or is being violated, and it appears to the Commission that a proceeding is in the public interest. When the Commission issues a consent order on a final basis, it carries the force of law with respect to future actions."

This is also legalize, so he hasn't been PROVEN to yet; but it's obvious they have a lot of things to go through here.
Why would there need to be 100k whistleblowers? That’s not how actuarial tables work. They’re normalized to a population of 100k, that doesn’t mean they’re derived from a population of 100k.

Yes, reality is complex and messy and confusing and we often don’t have data to describe it. That’s why it’s important to know when we are dealing with relevant facts and when we are constructing a spherical cow out of scraps in their absence.
When there's no crew to keelhaul, why even bother with the barnacles?
Feynman Lectures on Computation
What is it in particular, that Firefox Sync lacks?
Lol, I have 15000+ tabs across 13 windows.
XML is for data-exchange, competing with JSON and others. So I have no problem putting it to the data-documents, even though it's more a frankenstein. But HTML is an office-document, used for freetext, nobody really should use it for data, even though sometimes it's used that way.
Who will prompt Sora and fix minor glitches?
People using gas or oil ran into similar price hikes.

PV or if you’re further north solar thermal actually protected people from price spikes.
I am not sure how they do it, but one option is setting some arbitrary threshold for number of devices fingerprinted on a single ip in a given period of time. Something like taking the average number of devices and denying access to ips that they detect ~3 sigma different devices from.
"Firefox View", accessible via a pinned-tab-like button at the beginning of the tab strip gives a good way already to manage lots of tabs. It allows to search tab titles from all Firefox windows and gives access to tabs on connected devices and the browsing history.
PG and all the other smart people were making fun of average citizen on twitter when they blamed corporations for some of the inflation.
While all of this is true, there is a monopoly on distribution. Doesn’t matter where it comes from if one entity owns the pipes.
Is this an American thing? From my European pov, the market seems not as hysterically good as during the early covid years, but pretty solid nonetheless if you have some experience.
Are there any higher-context 70B finetunes yet with good benchmarks?
So make or buy your own generator. Or better yet startup an energy supply company. That's the point of it never beeing monopoly. The market is ripe for entry.
"We live and we die. We control nothing beyond that."
Entering pages from a common but changing context is in fact the main way to get more open tabs. I often scan the main page of HN or my newspaper and right-click the titles that look interesting to open them in the background, then go through those tabs at my leisure, while those pages may drop off those main pages in the meantime (it's a kind of FOMO really). Some of those will then stay open while I get sidetracked doing actually important things. Those pages are usually ephemeric and not meant as a reference, so not good bookmark candidates.
That is why I have solar and batteries. Don’t have to worry about energy costs.
The most detailed account I remember reading was that some biker gang threw shade at his Harley Davidson jacket at a bar, a fight ensued, and somebody hit him in the head. Don’t know how anyone was able to come up with this story, and no one got arrested though.
damn this is crazy, how did they even compile all the residential proxies

im seeing it detect!!
No problem—glad to participate! There's a lot of cynicism that leads to misinformation about how healthcare works, so I'd like to clean that up. Let's attack and fix the broken parts of the system, but we should praise the working parts. I think patient privacy/security is one of the few things the US gets mostly right about healthcare.

Regarding the privacy policies: these are created by the legal department and physicians in the department are told to distribute them and get signatures when necessary in order to do things by the book. However, your rights are inalienable and protected regardless of whether you actually receive the policy and sign the appropriate box. If you don't receive the policy, the healthcare institution is on the hook and could face a fine if reported to the DHHS. Things could absolutely be done more efficiently and clearer for patients, but there's a fear in changing things ("if it ain't (horribly) broke, don't fix it"). Trying to improve how privacy policies are disseminated and patients informed could result in an inadvertent violation of HIPAA that results in large fines. So healthcare institutions are disincentivized from trying to improve things here.

I reviewed the patient privacy policy for a few large institutions in the US, and it all seems to support what I'm saying. For example, here's NYU's policy on business associates: https://nyulangone.org/files/business-associates.pdf

NYU has additional policies here: https://nyulangone.org/policies-disclaimers/hipaa-patient-pr.... UCLA Health has similar policies here: https://www.uclahealth.org/privacy-practices. Every institution has essentially the same policies as they're all just a reflection of HIPAA.

The only ways in which patient data can be shared with others are if (1) they're involved in your treatment (e.g., your doctor at another hospital), (2) payment purposes (e.g., insurance), (3) health care operations (e.g., third party vendor software like EMRs, PACS, etc.) All are required to be HIPAA compliant if they're covered entities (i.e., healthcare institutions) or sign a BAA with a covered entity that essentially puts the same HIPAA requirements on them. A violation again results in massive fines, C-suite level firings, and expensive legal fallout.
That started this month. But, job loss after revised job reports are not false. I can't find the tweet right now, but it had extreme detail analysis how we are losing jobs.

VC raising funds have nothing to do with ecomony. It is rich people moving money among each other. If you believe in trickle down, then perhaps part of these record breaking funds will flow to rich and connected founders.

For everyone else, there is a big struggle.
My Books, Essay #6